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Handling The #UpsAndDowns of Life

3 days ago
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5 minutes

Welcome to an #IdeaGenerator session from the headquarters of #HowToMatter where the #PodcastTeam is sharing ideas for the #HowToMatterPodcast. Let's listen in.
Speaker 0: Thanks to all of you for making it to our #IdeaGenerator get together. Let's just follow our usual process. Whoever wants can share an idea or perspective with the #PodcastTeam with the only caveat being that the idea or perspective needs to help our listeners better pursue their interest in making a difference with people who make a difference to them. Who wants to go first?
Speaker 1:I have been kind of stuck on something we shared a while back. You may recall that #GarrisonKeellor said that some luck lies in not getting what we thought we wanted but getting what we have, which once we have got it we may be smart enough to see is what we would have wanted had we known. He does have a way with words but When you get down to it, we might not even be able to tell when we have been dealt four aces in life's great poker game. We may be sitting here with the winning hand and don't know it. Even worse, we may think we lost. It's at moments like this when we need to focus on a message like the one from #RoseKennedy who reminded us that birds sing after a storm; so why shouldn't we feel as free to delight in whatever remains to us?
I am thinking that life certainly has its ups and downs, good days and bad, challenges and opportunities. The key for us is in seizing the opportunities, maximizing the good days, taking full advantage of life's ups.
Of course, the big question is then how do we do this? I am thinking that it is like #FrankClark pointed out when he said that if we can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere. Our bad days, our challenges, life's downs are but prelude to the delights that remain. However objectionable life is for us today, we will do well to do as #WinstonChurchill advised us when he said that if we are going through hell, we should just keep going.
I don't know who said it but the point is that a bend in the road is not the end of the road unless we fail to make the turn. I guess we could always consider a strategy like running away and hiding. I suppose our idea would be to somehow bypass life's hassles? That's at least a thought but as we imagine our alternatives, we will do well to recall what #UncleRemus discovered long ago. We can't run away from trouble. There ain